Frank Wheaton

Frank Wheaton (8 May 1833-18 June 1903) was a Major-General of the US Army during the American Civil War and Indian Wars, having a notable role in the Modoc War of 1872-73.

Biography
Wheaton was born on 8 May 1833 in Providence, Rhode Island, and he joined a survey crew along the United States-Mexico border at the age f 18. He would fight against attacks by Native Americans while traveling with the company, and he received an army appointment as a cavalry lieutenant in 1855. Wheaton would see action in wars against the Cheyenne on the Great Plains and then in the American Civil War at all of the major battles of the Army of the Potomac, and he was brevetted Major-General in the volunteer army and Colonel in the US Army. After the Civil War, his service on the frontier continued, and he led 250 regulars and 150 volunteers (including allied Klamath Indians) against the Modoc in 1872-1873 during the Modoc War. He was relieved of command after a failed attack on Captain Jack's stronghold on 17 January 1873, which left 35 Americans dead and 7 wounded, while the Modoc suffered no losses. In 1896, he was dispatched to Texas to quell the Yaqui Uprising, repelling Yaqui, Pima, and Mexican revolutionaries at Ambos Nogales. Wheaton died in 1903 at the age of 70.